Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-12-22
THOUSANDS OPLIVRST021
The Yellow River. ia China. or..,
Its Banks, Sweeping Away pI.,
PopuloUs Cities.
Celestials Drowned in Imn,ep,. -.
bers, and a Million Spr,ir.
Reported Starving.
Innumcrable nr.h

lnnumcrable Dead
The steamship City Of Sidnsr
rived at San Francisco from n -A
and Yokohama bringing the ny s-s A''
terrible flooa. ''oi
Chinese papers give details Of
aster oecasioned by the Yellow yir.. -''
flowing its banks ia the pr1,,. Wv
Honau, and describe it rs oBs |
most appalling occurrences in n.y..
and property recorded in recent Il, "
The river broke its bank ON ,i ---''
ing of Sept. rs, southwest of M. ~. W.
Ching Chow, and not only conII..-,
undated that city, but also ton 6tb..
ulous cities.
The whole area is now a raging T.,
TO thirty feet deep, where II 49,
" populated and rich plain. IT,
er bed of the Yellow river is now DIV
The present lake was the bed of ,5 '', =. 4
centuries ago.
The loss of life Is incalculsble ana i
statement is made by missionsris. 4
millions of Chinese are homels,,
starving.
A MIssIoNARY's LETTER.
Thomas Patton, one of the Am.,i..
missionaries, writing from HopgD p. Il
vince under date of October u IA
THE newly gathered crops, house, !,
trees are all swept away. inycl7ipg h /
full loss of life. The country was oov.
with fiue winter blaid, which is gone !,
implies the complete destruction Of n,
years crop. Bread, bread is the on
thousands, who are on the river he,
Benevolent people 90 in boats aud IN,
bread among the masses here and As
but it is nothing compared with ,bs j
quirements. The mass of people /, d.
being increased by continual arrival
even more hungry than the last. Tsal
they sit, stunned, hungry and deisc.sl
without rag to wear or a morsel Of fool
Mat huts ale being erected for them \
the west of this, but what it will be ID "A
months l can't conceive. The misery
increased owing to the bitter al
weather"
The Yellow river has long been known |
cHINA's SORROW,
ard the present disaster has served to a
assert its right to the terrible titla i
yet details of the disaster ars ys.I
meeger. 1t has occurred in a di.al
where but few foreigners are, and ,tpCl
furnished by the officials and pubshsI
in the Picking Gazette convey very iual
equate particulars of the extent Of ID
loss of life and property and the sufs1
ings of the survivors. The governor 1
Honau reports to the throne that nsmI
all the people have been drowned il d
district reached by the water, the '.'
yiyors being those who escaped to higi
ground or took refuge in trees. whers1sI
remained till they we're rescued"
This gives but little impression as
what the extent Of the disaster really
The Chinese Times states that in a
province Of Chilli, whore disastrous ID
undatious have also occurred, tbef: a
10000 people homeless, representa-
those whose lives we're destroyed a1'
adds that the missing in that province
triding com pared with that caused Z
Huango-Ho, or Yellow river.
The extent of the ground swept b
overwhelming food, given in Engs'
figures, Is
OVER 1000 SQUARE NILES,
and the land thus submerged formed
part of one of the richest and most dense
" populated plains of Northern uaIl'
The necessity for liberal aid may 'as''
fore be Imagined. Already consldefao,
sums have been contributed toward n
relief Of the sufferers. The Emperor
China, has given 100000 of taeI'' sl
the Chinese have started a subScFPuu
list in Shanghai, to which foreigners l''
contributed literally.
Millions have been rendered nolis'''
and entirely deprived of all chances i,
earning their livelihood, for theii A' '
will either become permanent laAs,
uninhabitable swamps. II is feared ' .a
the distress which will be felt during n n
coming winter will equal in inten'I,! N. \
famine of ten years ago, when ola .I.'
donations contributed from all PS'@
the world we're utterly inadequate s,
1t is stated that owing TO the a'".
taken by the Yellow River 1t no ~ ~,
flows toward the sea, but seems ' y....
in converting Eastern Honau ana -'v M
ern Nganwhui into lake. 1t ma! r jr
mately flow into the sea thronsn '' Il